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Melafix is not good for bettas. If you go that route, use bettafix. It has the harmful part removed.

Maybe corgi?

That actually looks nice. I would probably push the suction cups all the way to the substrate myself but it doesn't really matter.

It probably is not a baby. Just a small bladder snail. It's probably been there for a long time. You just hadn't seen it until now.

white stringy poop is usually a parasite infection

Are you using something to neutralize the chlorine/chloramines?

Mine likes my Java ferns

picking up plants, moving things around, killing snails, picking out floaters to throw away, picking up dead fish, retrieving parts of plants that I have trimmed... Like I said, I use it all the time.

My family had one back in the 60's.

I've had them before but this one I have only had a couple of months and it has doubled or even tripled in size in that time. I throw a pleco wafer in a couple times per week but I want it to be hungry to it keeps eating algae in the tank.

I use mine all the time.

sure, they are nice snails I just thought they would be a bit big for a 5 gallon tank. I personally like Nerites better but they do leave eggs everywhere. I think the Nerite seem to clean better.

Not sure but I have one that is about 2 1/2 inches across.

mystery snails can get pretty big for a 5 gal tank.

I just started a skimmer last week (different kind) and I was having a problem with sucking air also. I found that just getting a bit deeper in the water solved the problem for me. I got a skimmer because I was getting a pretty good film because of my floating plants making the surface rather...

I was darn close. Only missed the 10% Shepherd. 😊

Feed them after the lights have been off for a while. The guppies will be asleep.

I like my water diffuser for adding water without messing up the tank and washing my plants around. It hooks over the edge of the aquarium so it doesn't go anywhere.

No, sharks are scarier, at least to humans. Orcas don't kill people except at Seaworld.

Biorb tank. Waste of money, hard to clean, hard to change out the filter cartridge, and I could not keep anything alive in it. Looked nice but that was about it and it was relatively expensive for what you got.

They aren't schooling fish so I would move him to keep him healthy and away from the new fish.

Shrimp maybe?

I've lost a few for no apparent reason over a couple of months though, not 24 hours. Mine just stopped eating, still looked healthy but slowly got weak and died. The first 2 I chalked up to one very aggressive one that terrorized the rest of them so I got rid of him and slowly lost a couple...

I rinse, shake, thin, and trim mine.

Looks like Ich to me but I really don't know. What I do know is the you need a ginormous tank to take care of him as unless it is a smaller type of pleco, it can get to be a foot long if he lives.

Maybe another tiger barb bit a chunk out of him?

I've had 1 tank most of my life off and on. None for several years and then Covid hit. I started with 1 tank again but now a couple of years later, I have 3.

I'm in the same boat. I kept fish as a kid. Other than treating for chlorine, I did nothing. Undergravel filter, changed the water when I felt like it. Plants grew great and fish lived without much trouble. Fish seem much more fragile now.

I don't know about floating but mine climb the glass and then just let go and sink to the bottom.

I use both, kind of switch back and forth. The results vary only slightly for me. I assume the liquid tests are the more accurate if they vary. The place they seem quite different is the GH and KH for me. The strips always show the water as being a bit harder.

I thought chloramines did not dissipate just by sitting in a bucket?

I have Amanos and guppies. They have never killed any fish. I haven't even seen them go after a dead guppy.

I would poison them if I had them that bad. I mash daily to keep mine from building up.

I use nerites and amano shrimp. Between the 2 they eat almost all my algae.

I like my pleco but I won't be entering. He is just a plain jane brownish bristlenose.

I haven't done this nor do I plan to but the first thing that pops into my mind is how would you match the outgoing water with the incoming? Seems to me like it would either make the tank go dry or overflow it unless the outgoing was just an overflow outlet.

If there is only one, it isn't going to multiply. I have 3 tanks with nerites and 1 mystery.

I think the lower holes are a safety feature so that if the top main inlet gets blocked, the pump doesn't run dry and burn out the motor. At least that is the explanation of my built in filter which is similar.

works for me! I've started tanks several times with quick start. And no ammonia spikes. I have no idea really but all I can say is that it has been okay for me.

I always net mine right out of the bag.